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Tamilrockers vs Tamil cinema

Tamilrockers vs Tamil cinema this is What going on here for the past 1 year. On the very first time the tamil rockers made its entry into the online world few years back. It almost wanted two long years to gain the attention of the entire cinema world toward them. They started this piracy as a small time pass and it turned out to be one of the most spoken topic around the country. They might have started their website like other blogs and uploaded pirated contents and shared their links on to the social media like facebook, twitter and other sites. Thus they become the virally shared blog at one stance. The anti-piracy has not appeared at the starting. Tamilrockers after two long years reached the place where they wanted to achieve. After that they started uploading every movie releasing on the very first day, made them more popular among the viewers. Leak of movies on the very first day made a statement to the film makers and producers. This made the people to watch the movies on internet sites on the very first day which reduced the first day collections of the under rated movies. Movies of big stars has not affected by this as they have a huge number of dedicated fans who watch movies on the very first day even if the film was a flop show.

The piracy has affected many directors and their livelihood also the producers. The producers were spending their whole earnings on the new movies in the thought of getting the interest. But the advent of piracy sites made it a tough call for the producers. Also the directors who were new in the cinema had spending their whole life in making a good movie. But on the very first day it got leaked on the piracy sites make the efforts of the directors in vain. Thus we need to give priority to the good content rich movies.

 Seriously who were tamilrockers?

What’s the big deal?

What they were asking?

Why they were targeting Tamil cinema?

Entering this topic you might have watched the tamilrockers the untold story. In that shortfilm, the story starts with a good, smart, handsome boy looking for a chance to get into the cinema. He walk in for many auditions and not selected by any. Finally, change happens when he met a director who asks him to pay 1 lakh then he will get a lead role in the movie. He does not have such huge amount of money. Dejected in life and decided to forget his desire to become an actor.

He searched for a job based on his studies and got one at United Stated. There he met a guy, who is a hacker and can hack anything that brought in front of him. Days rolled on they become friends. Within few months they become very close. One day accidentally the hero reminds of the director who insulted him the other day. Went sleepless and decided to take revenge on Tamil cinema which destroyed his dreams and desires.

With the help of his friend he got the pirated versions of the Tamil movie prints from the web storages. Then they published them on their website in the pirated form. They got ads from ad companies that earned them a respectable amount of money. Also the sell the pirated version to other websites that too yielded them a plenty of money. The piracy is at its best in a country where piracy is a crime under the Copyrights Act. According to this act one cannot copy others work, art or other things that they produce. Actor Vishal combined with anti - piracy and the police set up a trap for the tamilrockers where they escaped wisely. But the police thought they got the culprits but still the website is leaking that eventually shows us that the men behind tamilrockers is still not arrested.

Coming back to the content, we all know that the reasons for the piracy breakout over the period of time. People were highly concerned about the movie costs. You guys need to think where the movie makers missed. I think it is really in the costing scenario. A movie ticket from Rs 30 raging to Rs 150. I’m not saying that Rs. 150   is not an affordable price, but if one watching the movie including all the charges for 500; then how much need to spend for one family? It would be close to 2000. His monthly salary would be 15000. How he can watch a movie in theatre with his family. Additional charges for car parking, two wheeler parking these all the other reasons for this piracy breakout.

The whole cinema industry was said, that the tamilrockers were stealing their money. What the film industry is doing then, they too stealing our money for useless movies and copycat movies. First day ticket price for the big stars were around 1000 – 3000, in return giving a movie that have nothing to watch, no story, no content. Movies were made only for the growth of the actors. We may have noticed the increase in the salaries of the actor and the actress, the salaries were our money. Without giving a quality movie, with some mass action scenes added with romantic songs without a story and content they were making movies. Still the movie is grossing RS 100 Cr on box office. This is the condition in Kollywood cinema. We were making every movie over rated. We the people need to wake up, its not about watching the movie on theatres. Conversely it’s about supporting the movie that contains a good story or good screen play. We were always focussing on the big budget films, there starts our problem. There were several low budget films that failed to get the audience response even with good story line.

If we want to stop piracy the cinema industry need to take some valiant moves regarding the cost of the ticket. Let us see whether any change will be made in the Tamil cinema.